The Terror of War
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| Nick Út , 1972 |
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The Terror of War ( Engl. "The Disasters of War"), also known as Accidental Napalm and Napalm Girl is the title of a photo of the Vietnamese photographer Nick Ut , which the then nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc shortly after a napalm -attack South Vietnamese Shows planes at Tr Ortng Bàng on June 8, 1972.
The strategically important National Road No. 1 ran through the village of Trảng Bàng. North Vietnamese soldiers had attacked and occupied the National Road No. 1 near the village of Trảng Bàng. The attack had brought traffic to a standstill and a traffic jam formed. South Vietnamese soldiers surrounded the village and combed it in search of enemy soldiers. Around noon, the commander of the South Vietnamese troops requested air support from the South Vietnamese Air Force. Two Douglas A-1 propeller guns appeared over the village. A first napalm bomb was dropped. At the time, Kim Phúc and family members other civilians and South Vietnamese soldiers fled towards the South Vietnamese positions on the edge of the village. Four napalm bombs hit the outskirts of the village and on National Road No. 1, where the fleeing soldiers and civilians were. The pilot is said to have taken the fleeing people for enemy soldiers. Four people died in the napalm attack, including two cousins of Kim Phúc. Kim Phúc suffered third degree burns when her clothes were burned. The fleeing people ran towards the journalists and soldiers waiting in front of the village. The nine-year-old Kim Phúc with her siblings and her grandmother with the dying grandson in her arms. Without helping to intervene, the cameramen and photographers took photos. After the photos were taken, the children were looked after.
The photo was voted Press Photo of the Year 1972 and, along with the shooting of Nguyễn Văn Lém, is one of the most famous photos from the Vietnam War . Út was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for this picture .
In 2016, Facebook removed this photo several times due to unauthorized nudity from the profiles of various journalists and politicians, but after strong international criticism, the company reversed this.
literature
- Gerhard Paul : The story behind the photo. Authenticity, iconization and overwriting of an image from the Vietnam War . In: Contemporary historical research . No. 2 , 2005, p. 224-245 ( zeithistorische-forschungen.de [accessed on March 9, 2019]).
Web links
- 1973 Pulitzer Prize on pulitzer.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerhard Paul: The story behind the photo. Authenticity, iconization and overwriting of an image from the Vietnam War. In: Contemporary historical research. No. 2, 2005, pp. 224-245
- ↑ Fridtjof Kuchemann: Facebook deletes Vietnam War photo , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. September 9, 2016.
- ↑ After massive criticism of Facebook: Famous war photo online again on tagesschau.de, from September 9, 2016.